Vulnerability Consultant

Vulnerability Consultant

Manchester, Cheltenham or London

We are a leading global cybersecurity company dedicated to helping organizations protect their digital assets and ensure compliance with industry standards. Our team is passionate about innovation, collaboration, and delivering exceptional results for our clients.

We are seeking an experienced Cyber Essentials Assessor to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cybersecurity, excellent team-working skills, and a proactive, creative approach to problem-solving. This role involves assessing organizations against the Cyber Essentials framework, providing expert guidance, and working closely with clients to enhance their cybersecurity posture.

This is an opportunity to join a technically advanced and talented team and help NCC Group to continue to deliver customer centric assessments and advice for our Cyber Essentials services to our customers.

Your expertise in Cyber Essentials assessments, collaborative and proactive approach, and a customer-centric approach will be crucial in driving customer satisfaction, team success, and business growth.

Key Responsibilities

This is an opportunity to work in a fun and challenging environment, using market leading security testing tools and platforms to provide security testing services to our large client base. You will play a key role in delivering and managing Cyber Essentials security programs all year round, as well as building relationships with clients and ensuring that our services meet their needs.

You will also have the responsibility of working with other vulnerability consultants to support the direction and development of the service.

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of the range of size and complexity of client organisations against the Cyber Essentials framework.
• Collaborate with clients to understand their cybersecurity needs and provide tailored recommendations.
• Prepare detailed assessment reports and present findings to clients.
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure seamless project delivery.
• Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity trends and best practices.
• Contribute to the development of innovative assessment methodologies and tools.
• Build support and trust with all customers.
• Running and manually verifying network and application vulnerability scans
• Analysis of external and internal outputs, to identify and communicate noncompliance.
• Work directly with customers to provide prioritization for remediation.
• Providing support and answering queries from clients
• Own the operational relationships with your customers.
• Assist the operational teams in fixing issues that arise during the operation of services.
• Act as the SME to customers to improve the quality of service they are receiving and maintain a roadmap for those customers.
• Mentor more junior consultants, providing guidance and support in delivering exceptional service to our clients.
• Foster a collaborative and positive team culture, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Work with the Departmental Leadership team, as a SME, to ensure success.

What we are looking for in you

Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Proven experience as a Cyber Essentials Assessor or similar role.
• In-depth knowledge of the Cyber Essentials framework and cybersecurity principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Proactive, creative, and solution-oriented mindset.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Cyber Essentials Assessor, VA+, CPSA or CRT). CISM/CISSP are a plus.
• Excellent understanding of basic cyber security principles
• Good understanding and exposure to network and web application security
• Good experience using network and application scanning tools and utilities, such as Nexpose Rapid 7, Qualys, HP Web Inspect, IBM App Scan, Tenable Nessus, Burp, NMAP etc.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work and manage time and tasks independently.
• Ability to communicate with customers in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong customer handling skills
• Good consultancy skills

Values

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